Breakfast at Ballydoyle

YOU spend a couple of hours with a family that achieves to such an incredibly high degree and the expectation is that you emerge with an insight.

But we already know about the attention to detail, the keen eye, the work ethic and the quality of raw material there is to work with. So it’s best to come clean. There is nothing new to reveal. The best that can be said – and there’s no headline in this – is that the O’Briens are normal.

This is racing royalty.